Hey everybody this is Daniel Vitalis inviting you to the rewild yourself

podcast this is the summer solstice edition and for this dispatch we're talking about primal movement and I thought it was a really

great time to get Arthur Haynes on the line and discuss a little bit about the

movement almost migratory movement of our ancestors and talk a little bit about

what sedentary living is not just today but what it means from the scientific perspective

and what it meant when it first

started about 10,000 years ago. So we're going to be exploring primal movement,

not from the exercise perspective, but we're going to actually be exploring how

our ancestors moved throughout their world and

throughout their environment. So A Arthur, thanks so much for being here with us again.

I appreciate you inviting me on again Daniel.

Awesome to have you here.

So yeah, the topic today is Primal Movement.

I'm kind of interested in going off sort of wherever your research has taken you lately,

but what can you tell us about the difference between sedentary living as it's defined in biology and I guess anthropology and the lifestyle of our pre-agricultural hunting and gathering

ancestors.

Well, they'd get this conversation started Daniel? We know that most, but that's not exclusively all,

but most hunter-gatherer groups were nomadic. In other words, as you've sort of lent to the idea here,

that they were on the move at least seasonally if not daily for a lot of the activities

that they were doing you know primarily food acquisition but also for the

gathering of medicine for the materials that they needed for living.

And we see that in a lot of the literature that we look at and also the living hunter-gatherer

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